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I bought my spouse a MacBook Air. It just worked and I haven’t had to unfuck it once.
by hvgk 5y ago
I bought my spouse a MacBook Air. It just worked and I haven’t had to unfuck it once.
- fsflover 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202
- kop316 5y agoOk....but thats not really what you discussed in the parent comment, and if we are going off a sample size of n=1 : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250736933 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250736933 (I can of course add other threads to that effect here, but you get the idea, at least I hope). For another example, my music teacher HATEs updating her Mac, because she says she has to spend days unfucking everything that Apple changed, and half of the programs she paid a lot of money for (e.g. Finale) or even simple programs she relies on for work (Zoom, Google Duo) stop working for unknown reasons, and the Mac does other odd things in the OS that break too. She complains about it nearly every week. That and in the past several years, I have never had issues with desktops/laptops/etc. where an update on Linux dumps a GPU core or plays Russian roulette closing my laptop lid. To my knowledge, a lot of macbooks behave pretty well with Linux (for reasons I outlined above, they write drivers that are well behaved and conform to known standards). Same with: > On the desktop it’s needy, brittle and like wading in sewage. Since using Linux since 2006, I can't say I have ever had such an experience? And I've never bothered to be careful with buying motherboards. If anything, that is my experience with Windows on a custom Desktop. I have to wade through so many needy motherboards that need their specific drivers and then want me to install Chrome, Adobe, McAfee, or whatever Spyware type "antivirus" that comes "included" in their drivers. Half the time I have to download it from another computer since their Ethernet controller doesn't work out of the box. Downloading it from Windows update isn't much better, since even Windows bundles their crapware with Windows update (Razer is a particularrly annoying example). And good luck finding reviews that discuss this, you pretty much have to look at their drivers page to find out if the motherboard behaves well in Windows.